For limited intelligence, maybe.
Want a limited edition artwork tattooed on your skin? Berlin is the place to go – The city’s tattoo studios are booming while the art world flounders. Under a new initiative, buyers receive exclusive rights to an artist’s new design, and the artist receives 50% of the profit
To go to Brussels.
Who would want anything to do with the European Parliament industrial complex if could be avoided?
Off the rails: Night train from Berlin to Brussels will stop running at the end of March – Passengers can still travel between Berlin and Brussels on an overnight train using the European Sleeper.
European Sleeper is also a much more appropriate name, I find.
Wheels.
Hundreds of thousands of young eels will be released into Berlin’s waters again this year to preserve the eels.
Go ahead, Berlin. Save the eels. If you must.
But speaking of eels, and wheels, who is going to save Eelon Musk?
Must have figured this one out.
Syrian suspect in Berlin Holocaust Memorial stabbing wanted to kill Jews, investigators say – The suspect in a stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial that seriously injured a Spanish tourist is a Syrian refugee who apparently wanted to kill Jews, investigators said Saturday.
The 19-year-old suspect was arrested on Friday evening, nearly three hours after the attack, when he approached officers with blood on his hands and clothes…
The suspect arrived in Germany in 2023 as an unaccompanied minor and successfully applied for asylum, investigators said. He lives in Leipzig.
I couldn’t agree more, Tilda.
Tilda Swinton decries ‘internationally enabled mass murder’ at Berlin film festival – Actor speaks out against ‘the unacceptable complacency of our greed-addicted governments’ as she picks up a Golden Bear award for lifetime achievement.
I don’t know if I can buy that one.
Palestinian influencer arrested after firework rocket hits Berlin apartment – “I didn’t know how a rocket works and how far it would fly. I didn’t want to hurt anyone on purpose,” Atallah Younes said.
Stay home and crawl under bed at midnight.
New Year’s Eve: Around 3,000 additional police officers on duty – In order to prevent New Year’s Eve riots and attacks on the emergency services as far as possible, the Berlin police largely rely on the concept from last year.
Same procedure as every year.
Berlin’s Christmas markets have been reflecting this for years.
Berlin’s traditional Christmas markets reflect city’s growing diversity – The smells of mulled wine, roasted almonds and hot bratwurst are wafting through the air across the German capital again, as the city’s more than 100 Christmas markets are opening their doors this week. But the annual tradition that Germans have cherished since the Middle Ages — and successfully exported to much of the Western world — has become a pretty diverse affair, at least in Berlin.
I know. I’ll call Vladimir Putin and ask him to stop the war and pull out of Ukraine.
That’s never been tried before.
Zelensky accuses German chancellor of opening ‘Pandora’s box’ with Putin…
Facing a snap election on Feb. 23, Scholz’s Social Democrats are coming under pressure from Russia-friendly populist parties on both sides of the political spectrum that argue the government has not deployed enough diplomacy to end the war, according to Reuters.
Observing Hermann 